Lead GIS Specialist, Remote Sensing

Lead GIS Specialist, Remote Sensing  [DRAFT]

Biodiversity & Carbon Team  ·  Toowoomba, Melbourne or remote work  ·  0.8–1.0 FTE

Build and lead the spatial analysis tools shaping the future of carbon and biodiversity measurement.

About us

Integrity Ag is a science-led consultancy helping the agricultural sector measure, manage and reduce its environmental footprint and benefit from markets that reward landholders achieving better outcomes. Our Biodiversity & Carbon team delivers rigorous, defensible carbon and biodiversity outcomes for clients across Australia — guided by our values of Integrity, Innovation and Care.

About the role

Spatial assessment and reporting of land use (including forest) and other ag-related assets like soil and biodiversity is a key part of what we do. We are looking for a Lead GIS Specialist who can turn complex spatial and field data into robust, audit-ready insights — and who wants to take ownership of the leading in-house spatial analysis tools we are building, and lead the proposals and client relationships that grow this service line.

Reporting to a Principal, you will:

• Lead the ongoing management and continuous improvement of our leading in-house spatial analysis tools and platforms — building, improving, documenting and scaling them so they remain first-class, market-ready products. This is primarily continuous improvement of tools already in production, not blank-page invention.

• Conduct statistical and spatial modelling using remote sensing across optical (Sentinel-2, Landsat), radar (Sentinel-1 SAR) and LiDAR data, applying machine learning and image classification where it adds value, and use of biomass models such as FullCAM.

• Work fluently across ArcGIS, QGIS, cloud Earth-observation platforms (e.g. Google Earth Engine), FullCAM, and Python and/or R.

• Lead the development and delivery of proposals and tender responses for spatial, carbon and biodiversity work — scoping technical approach, estimating effort and cost, and coordinating competitive bids end-to-end — as a core, ongoing part of the role.

• Own client relationships and communications on your projects, from data collection through to delivery, amendments and sign-off.

• Deliver landuse (LULUC), carbon, vegetation and biodiversity consulting projects — including farm condition data, HIR, tree planting and soil carbon — to ACCU Scheme and MRV (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) standards, and emerging insetting standards.

• Design and manage databases, reporting and integrations (SQL, Power BI, APIs) to help the business scale to meet client needs.

• Quantify and document the uncertainty and accuracy of your estimates so our work stays defensible and audit-ready.

• Manage project budgets — including, where you are leading a project, the budgets and time of other team members and subcontractors working alongside you.

About you

A degree in Data Science, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Science, Environmental Science, Computer Science or a related discipline (postgraduate qualifications well regarded), 5 or more years’ professional experience, and the drive to prioritise workflows to deliver outcomes and continuously improve tools through to completion.

You'll thrive in this role if

• You get more satisfaction from strengthening, scaling and hardening a system than starting one from a blank page — this role is mostly continuous improvement of tools we've already built.

• You have sound judgement under messy data, and genuine follow-through — model updates, projects and platform improvements get finished to a defensible, audit-ready standard, not just started.

• You're willing and able to step up and lead a tender, a proposal, or a client relationship — even if that's not the part of the job you enjoy most.

The Essentials

• Geospatial analytics & remote sensing: delivering projects using GIS and remote sensing techniques across raster, vector, multispectral and LiDAR datasets, with a strong understanding of Australian coordinate reference systems.

• Software engineering: strong Python development, including geospatial libraries and automated processing workflows; building robust, production-quality code with version control (Git), testing, and deployment of analytical systems in an Agile environment.

• Data engineering: designing and managing spatial databases using PostgreSQL/PostGIS; SQL development, APIs, automated data pipelines, and geospatial web services such as GeoServer.

• Proposals, tenders & client leadership: demonstrated experience leading (not only contributing to) proposals and tender responses, and owning client relationships and communications through the life of a project.

• Consulting and/or project management: leading project delivery and managing project and team-member budgets and timeframes, and supporting other team members.

• Australian carbon offset projects: delivery of HIR, Savanna Burning, Environmental Plantings and similar methods.

• Supervised classification experience.

• Broader consulting and project management across multiple concurrent clients.

The Desirables

• Emissions modelling: FullCAM, SavCAM and relevant emission accounting frameworks (GHG SLRS, ISO 14067, etc.).

• Developing vegetation monitoring systems.

• Front-end web development for geospatial-based websites.

• Automated code-based reporting.

What's on offer

• Flexible location — Toowoomba or Melbourne offices or remote work-from-home — and part-time or full-time (0.8–1.0 FTE).

• Meaningful work at the cutting edge of carbon and biodiversity measurement, and real ownership of the proposals and client relationships that grow it.

• A supportive, values-driven team collaborating on innovative, advanced projects.

Open to a conversation

If this work interests you but you are not sure the level or title is quite right — whether you are an emerging data engineering specialist or an experienced technical or research leader — we would still like to hear from you. For the right person we are open to shaping the role, level and remuneration to fit. Send us your CV and a short note on what you would bring, and we will arrange a confidential chat.

How to apply

Click Apply and include your CV and a short cover letter that tells us about a spatial tool-set or challenging analysis you have built and delivered end-to-end — and, if you have one, a proposal or tender you led. We review applications as they arrive, so please apply early.